It's an honest thing to say. Centuries of extractive institutions lead to a rent-seeking, non-innovative society.

I guess it's honest: first complain and insult people, then maybe try to think seriously and get a valuable point accross. uneducated people != retarded.

High IQ people aren't free of it, it is not impossible to be very smart but with a high risk aversion. Let alone educated people, who actually do much more to shape institutions than the rest of the population.

Also, it is not too different from Southern European culture for obvious reasons. Okay, maybe there is more rent-seeking. Maybe.

Extractive colonization.
Spanish and Portugal left first settlers that still today are an important part of political and economic elites.
Inequality levels are much higher than first world and a good part of the population is left aside in the market system, which obviously reinforces a vicious cycle of poverty and underdevelopment.
That being said, certain regions of south america, the southern cone mainly (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and the southern part of Brazil), have life standards similar to southern europe. Also, you do have higher crime rates than in the first world, but you do not have neither the threat of terrorism nor to live in a theocratic regime (Brazil, Chile and Venezuela probably those with more incidence of the Catholic Church on political life)

That's from more than 18 months ago, BEFORE the Olympics, as the city was getting ready to host the event.
Now, more than 18 months later, the city of Rio de Janeiro is bankrupt, it cannot even pay its employees, and public services are already getting worse and worse.
But hey, let's keep denying reality, a thing that Brazilians (and Latin Americans) prefer to do.

That's a fairly strong claim: Rio government was able to control crime before, and for, the world cup. So the falling trends in criminality before the the games were announced have nothing to do with that? Nor the reduction of murder rates in cities not hosting the world cup?

I'm sorry but I was train to read number with a bit more rigour instead of just claiming causality like that. But hey, if that's denying reality, its not that bad. It got me a few nice publications...

That's from more than 18 months ago, BEFORE the Olympics, as the city was getting ready to host the event.
Now, more than 18 months later, the city of Rio de Janeiro is bankrupt, it cannot even pay its employees, and public services are already getting worse and worse.
But hey, let's keep denying reality, a thing that Brazilians (and Latin Americans) prefer to do.

That's a fairly strong claim: Rio government was able to control crime before, and for, the world cup. So the falling trends in criminality before the the games were announced have nothing to do with that? Nor the reduction of murder rates in cities not hosting the world cup?
I'm sorry but I was train to read number with a bit more rigour instead of just claiming causality like that. But hey, if that's denying reality, its not that bad. It got me a few nice publications...

You are so naive...sure let's rely on stats given by the Brazilian government.